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Other claimed justifications for war are less clear, but not necessarily to be rejected out of hand. A case could well be made that the US would have been justified to attack the Japanese task force as it steamed toward Pearl Harbor, without waiting for bombs to fall. In quite a different situation, a case could be made that NATO was justified in going to war to prevent "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo in 1999, even though NATO members were not directly threatened, to prevent genocide and put an end to the series of aggressive actions by the Serbian regime of Slobodan Milosovic.

Was the war against Iraq justified even under these broad standards? One way to test this proposition is to examine the validity or truthfulness of the arguments that the Bush Administration gave for going to war. Few doubt that the Saddam Hussein regime was odious; in the 1980s and early 1990s it committed both atrocities against its own people and aggression against two neighbors. However, the Bush Administration's assertions of justification for war were not based on Saddam's g

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